Giant Skeleton

The sky was dim, the earth cracked. In this world, a figure swayed as he rose to his feet.

"Where... is this?" A dry voice slowly sounded. The figure raised his head, revealing a somewhat youthful face. He looked about seventeen or eighteen.

The young man's features were neat and handsome, but his lips were pale, and he looked weak.

The clothes over his chest had been torn open, leaving a huge hole. The surrounding fabric was stained red with blood, exposing a savage wound beneath where his ribs could faintly be seen.

The wound was no longer bleeding. Granulation tissue was growing inside it, healing at an astonishing speed and making the sight seem rather eerie.

But none of that mattered to Jiang Hou. What mattered was where this place was.

Jiang Hou turned to inspect his surroundings. Faint Black Mist filled the space between heaven and earth, limiting his vision to a hundred meters. Above him were endless dark clouds, heavy with oppression.

The surrounding ground was cracked like a riverbed that had been dry for years. It was deathly silent, without the slightest trace of vegetation or life.

A hundred meters ahead, he could vaguely make out the remains of several buildings. They had long since collapsed, but they were too far away for Jiang Hou to see the ruins clearly.

He was standing atop something more than ten meters high and roughly a hundred meters long, high at both ends and low in the middle. A rock... No, not a rock. Its shape resembled a gigantic leg bone! Jiang Hou froze in astonishment.

The bone had the texture of gray stone and was enormous. He had no idea what creature it had come from, but this single leg bone was over a hundred meters long, its surface covered in dark red patterns.

The patterns converged beneath Jiang Hou's feet like blood vessels, forming a ten-meter-wide blood array. Faint light flowed between the lines before finally vanishing into his body.

Hiss! Jiang Hou's head throbbed, and he instinctively clutched his forehead as scattered memories surfaced in his mind.

Leaving home, a dark alley, Black Mist appearing out of nowhere, a monster...

He remembered now. Earlier that night, he had gone for a walk in the park and planned to head home around eight.

But unexpectedly, the streetlights in the alley he passed through every day had suddenly gone out. A wave of Black Mist swept over him, and before his vision went dark, he had arrived here.

Before he could react, a monster wreathed in Black Mist had pierced his heart! His heart!

Jiang Hou instinctively pressed a hand to his chest and immediately got blood all over it. The sticky sensation made him uncomfortable, but there was none of the pain he had expected.

"I... didn't die." Jiang Hou stared in astonishment at the wound on his chest, which had already healed over with skin.

Having died once before, Jiang Hou's will was firmer than most people's. Few things had shocked or shaken him over the years, but what had happened today was different. Dying and reviving on the spot felt completely different from suddenly becoming a baby more than ten years ago.

More than ten years ago, Jiang Hou had transmigrated into this world, which resembled Earth, and begun again as an infant.

But in this life, Jiang Hou's family was still ordinary. Aside from his mature mindset, his experiences had not been much different from his previous life: elementary school, middle school, high school...

Then today, he had been swept away by Black Mist and died again. Fortunately, the monster surrounded by Black Mist was gone. Otherwise, he might have died once more.

At that thought, Jiang Hou let out a slight sigh of relief. Then a transparent panel slowly appeared before his eyes.

Name: Jiang Hou, an ordinary terrestrial creature who had just embarked on the path of behemoth evolution

Strength: 21, equivalent to the strength of 10 ordinary people

Agility: 15

Defense: 10

Behemoth Form

Bloodline: Gibbon Ape juvenile form, ordinary behemoth, current size: five meters

Talent: Wrathful Roar. Fury ignites the blood, drawing out the power hidden in the bloodline and increasing current strength fivefold along with certain other attributes

Unique Talent: Devouring Evolution

Evolution Points: 0/100. Evolution can be activated once Evolution Points are filled

"This..." Jiang Hou looked at the somewhat familiar panel, and ancient memories buried deep in his soul were awakened.

Before dying in his previous life, he had been working overtime to rush out a web game called Shan Hai. While improving the Attribute Page, he had knocked over a cup of coffee, been electrocuted, and died suddenly.

He had never expected this thing to transmigrate with him and awaken along with this resurrection.

But if he remembered correctly, the Attribute Page only recorded changes to personal data, along with the Devouring Evolution talent he had added before his death, right?

Where had this behemoth bloodline come from...? Jiang Hou lowered his head and looked at the blood array beneath his feet, which had now completely dimmed.

His resurrection, including the Gibbon Ape bloodline, was most likely connected to this skeleton and the blood array.

When that monster had killed him and pierced his heart, the blood that flowed out had activated the rune array engraved on the skeleton, drawing upon the power of the blood array...

That should have been the reason... right?

Just as Jiang Hou was unsure whether his guess was correct, he suddenly sensed something and instinctively looked ahead.

In the deep darkness ahead, a monster slowly crawled out from behind the ruins of the buildings.

The monster resembled an ant. It was more than three meters long, with four legs and a pair of claws beneath its abdomen. Its entire body was covered in black scales as it crawled across the ground.

Seeing Jiang Hou standing atop the skeleton, the monster opened its huge mouth, revealing a mouthful of sharp fangs. Against the dark and oppressive surroundings, it looked like an Evil Ghost from hell, sending chills down one's spine.

As the monster hissed, shadows shifted behind it, and more monster figures appeared in the darkness.

It was Jiang Hou's first time seeing monsters like these, and there were so many of them. Even someone who had died twice felt his heartbeat quicken instantly.

So many monsters!

What should I do? Am I going to die again? And get torn apart and devoured alive by monsters!

Looking at those savage monsters, Jiang Hou's first reaction was the same as most people's. He felt nervous at first, then incomparably furious.

The anger came out of nowhere, instantly making the blood throughout his body boil.

In particular, Jiang Hou's originally black pupils turned red beneath that fury, filled with rage and brutality. His skin reddened as heat radiated from his entire body.

Hah hah!

Sensing the increasingly rich scent of flesh and blood, the monsters could no longer restrain themselves. The ground immediately trembled, dust billowed, and more than a dozen monsters charged toward Jiang Hou at over twice the speed of a human sprinting at full strength.

As the monsters rushed forward, Jiang Hou, whose body was steaming with white heat, let out an inhuman roar.

Boom! The air shook.

A shockwave erupted from Jiang Hou, and amid the howling gale, a five-meter-tall creature covered in black fur appeared.

The creature was massive and heavily muscled, resembling a gorilla. Yet unlike a gorilla, its muzzle protruded, its ears were long and pointed, and the thick hair atop its head made it look savage and demonic. Its form somewhat resembled a Saiyan Great Ape.

Except it had no tail.

The giant ape that had appeared from nowhere, along with the intense pressure it radiated, instantly made the monsters pause.

Bang! The petrified skeleton collapsed, forming a clear and massive footprint. Propelled by the powerful recoil, the Black Giant Ape leaped dozens of meters into the air.

The wind howled as the giant ape descended like a cannonball, crashing down viciously before the monsters.

Boom! The instant the giant ape landed, the earth beneath its feet shook. Dirt flew everywhere, and dust billowed up.

Roar! The giant ape raised both arms, and the muscles across its body swelled another size. Explosive power gathered in its fists as it smashed down fiercely at the nearest monsters.

Bang bang!! The air exploded beneath the powerful fists. The heads of two monsters instantly caved in, flesh and blood bursting outward as their bodies crashed to the ground.

Hah! Blood splattered across the surrounding monsters. Stimulated by the scent of blood, the monsters that had been intimidated earlier had their eyes turn red, leaving only fearless madness.

The nearest three monsters let out hisses and pounced directly at the Black Giant Ape. What greeted them, however, was a thick arm covered in black fur.

Bang! A heavy collision exploded through the air. The first monster in midair was punched in half by the Black Giant Ape, chunks of flesh spraying from its gaping mouth as its corpse smashed into the other two monsters.

Bang bang bang!! The Black Giant Ape swept its arm, sending all three monsters flying more than ten meters. They rolled a long way after hitting the ground before finally stopping.

Roar! The foul stench of blood made the Black Giant Ape even more violent. Its eyes glowed blood-red as it unleashed another Wrathful Roar, charging into the monster pack with wild momentum.

Crack!! A monster was seized by the neck, its bones crushed in the giant ape's grip.

Screech screech!! As the Black Giant Ape crushed that monster to death, it could not avoid every attack while surrounded by the pack. Two pairs of claws struck its thick legs, which were as sturdy as stone pillars.

But the Black Giant Ape's skin was tough, and the claws could not break through its defenses, leaving behind only several white marks.

The monsters' attacks made the Black Giant Ape even angrier. It suddenly spun around, grabbed the two monsters, and unleashed the strength in its hands.

Bang bang!! The two monsters' heads instantly shattered and collapsed. The Black Giant Ape used their corpses as weapons, wildly smashing them into the surrounding monsters.

The wind howled as the world filled with the monsters' miserable shrieks.

Under blows powerful enough to blast small craters into the ground, these monsters were injured with even a glancing hit. Those struck head-on had their flesh and blood explode.

After Giant Transformation, the giant ape was even faster, agile and nimble. Even fighting only on instinct, it crushed the monsters and madly smashed everything in its path.

The one-sided battle did not last long. Soon, silence returned, leaving only monster corpses torn apart or twisted across the ground.

And the Black Giant Ape standing among them with red eyes.

At this moment, the giant ape's entire body had been dyed dark red with blood. It held a mutilated monster corpse in each hand, standing atop the earth and radiating a bloody Evil Qi.

Roar! The Black Giant Ape threw back its head and roared at the sky, its eyes blood-red as it vented the fury and brutality in its heart.

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